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This is game changing for me (my life is boring). I totally didn't even know this was coming. It's like unexpected Christmas! For folks not in the know, it's been kind of a PITA to have packages loaded in an Elixir repl without a proper project. This should enable a lot more developer tooling to exist too; I'm stoked because I have one tool in particular that's going to be immediately be useful thanks to this change.

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Does that mean you're going to be able to drop into an Iex.pry session right in the middle of an exs script without having to wrap it all in a project?

I always found I had to do that and found it quite annoying (working through adventofcode with elixir..)

Agreed that this is huge for quality of life - the ability of Ammonite (a Scala shell) to require remote dependencies in the script is amazing, compared to having to set up a whole project and build a jar.

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